Social desirability (specifically, impression management) scales are widely used by researchers and practitioners to screen individuals who bias self-reports in a self-favoring manner. These scales also serve to identify individuals at risk for psychological and health problems. The present review explores the evidence with regard to the ability of these scales to achieve these objectives. In t...

With the growing trend of Instagram usage among politicians, this study investigates the effects of two self-presentation styles of personalization (i.e. presenting the private over the public life of a politician) and interactivity (i.e. presenting the active versus passive voice of a politician) on voters’ perception of politicians and their voting intention in the context of Instagram. The r...

Department of Business Information Systems and Operations Management, Belk College of Business Administration, University of North Carolina Charlotte, Charlotte, NC, U.S.A.; Department of Management Information Systems, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, Orlando, FL, U.S.A.; Department of Information Technology and Operations Management, College of Business, Flor...

Residual ridge resorption is most commonly seen in the mandible and its prosthodontic management is always a challenge to a general dentist. One of the methods of improving the retention, stability and support of such severly resorbed atrophic mandible is through proper impression technique. This article describes a modied putty wash technique for recording impression of atrophic mandible with...

We study the effect of firing threats in a virtual workplace that reproduces features of existing organizations. We show that organizations in which bosses can fire up to one third of their workforce produce twice as much as organizations for which firing is not possible. Firing threats sharply decrease on-the-job leisure. Nevertheless, organizations endowed with firing threats underperformed t...

In this paper, we argue that persuasive technology designers can improve the effectiveness of their design by integrating an impression management mechanism with other persuasive strategies. We illustrate how technologies can be designed to accommodate audience specific self­presentation.

This experiment addressed issues in impression management. First, this study investigated whether type of impression intended (accurate or fabricated) and level of self-monitoring (high or low) affect the amount of information about a target person that individuals would acquire, at some cost to themselves, prior to interacting with that person. As predicted, high self-monitors planning a fabri...